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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 21 September 2011 11:55, Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 21 September 2011 11:06, Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> A while ago, we used some Boost MPI but then removed it because of
>>>>> some older systems lack support. Could we start using it now? I would
>>>>> like to. It would make some parallel things a lot simpler. Would the
>>>>> buildbots need to be updated?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, some of them would need an update. Also, we would no longer be
>>>> able to provide packages for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, which is by far the
>>>> Ubuntu version with the most downloads from the PPA.
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK, so the decision is whether or not to continue support for 10.04.
>>> Since I don't use 10.04 but I do use MPI, I vote for ditching 10.04
>>> and using Boost MPI. A compromise would be to use Boost MPI, and not
>>> provide parallel support in the 10.04 package.
>>>
>>> How do we deal with Swig 2 in 10.04? Or is it not required since the
>>> wrappers have already been generated?
>>
>> I have backported SWIG 2.0 to Lucid.
>>
>
> OK,  what about backporting Boost too? There are a few PPAs already, e.g.
>
>   https://launchpad.net/~infie/+archive/boost-1.47
>   https://launchpad.net/~gezakovacs/+archive/boost

Yes, I will try to backport Boost in my test PPA
(https://launchpad.net/~johannr/+archive/test-ppa). I am just afraid
that it will break some of the other packages that depends on the
older Boost, but I will give it a shot.

Johannes